Moshe Barda
Hapoel Jerusalem players (Oren Ben Hakon)
Hapoel Jerusalem will host Hapoel Holon tonight (Saturday, 21:00) in the second round of the upper house in the Premier League. Both teams are coming after a loss in their previous game, the purples are yellow after the loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv while the reds are white after the difficult events in Athens and a loss to AAK Athens and when both see before their eyes how this game can reopen the fight for third place for the state champion or alternatively increase the gap from the cup holder’s point of view.
Holonia will be missing Jabin Delorier, who in the last few days, as we updated at the club, suffered from a virus and therefore he was not registered for the game, in addition to him, the team will also be missing Shahar Amir, who has not recovered from his shoulder injury, and CJ Harris, who they chose not to register for the game. On the other hand, those who did register for the game are Joe Ragland, Manny Harris, Marvin Jones, Hayden Dalton and Chris Johnson. The good news for the purple and yellow comes from the direction of Frédéric Bourdion who will return to play after about three months of absence from the courts. As you remember, the player who was injured in the Champions League underwent a long rehabilitation procedure and his first minutes since the injury will be against Hapoel Jerusalem.
The cup holder from the capital comes to the game looking to recover from the events in Athens which the club defined as a terrorist incident. At the Indian club, as soon as the first detonation exploded, the whole team froze, and there was also dissatisfaction with the display of judgment. For the match against Guy Goodes’ team, Aleksandar Dzikic and his team chose to register Kadin Carrington, Levi Randolph, Speedy Smith, Marks Meiris and Zach Hankins to compete in the Hall of Peace Arena.
Guy Goodes He said before the game: “We are going to a difficult away game against Hapoel Jerusalem, we have already lost there three times. This is a tough team and we want to come more prepared than we were against them, come more aggressive and keep the ball, stop the three-pointers they scored against us with a very high percentage and win in Jerusalem , which will not be an easy task, but we will do our best.”
